Close Friend Quotes
"As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her."
- Erma Bombeck
"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."
- Diogenes
"As long as you are lucky, you will have many friends; if cloudy times appear, you will be alone. —Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris"
- Ovid
"As one's gifts increase, his friends decrease."
- Kahlil Gibran
"Be a friend. You don’t need money: Just a disposition sunny; Just the wish to help another Get along some way or other; Just a kindly had extended Out to one who’s unbefriended; Just the will to give or lend, This will make you someone’s friend. Be a friend. You don’t need glory. Friendship is a simple story. Pass by trifling errors blindly, Gaze on honest effort kindly, Cheer the youth who’s bravely trying, Pity him who’s sadly sighing; Just a little labor spend On the duties of a friend. Be a friend. The pay is bigger (Though not written by a figure) Tan is earned by people clever In what’s merely self-endeavor. You’ll have friends instead of neighbors For the profits of your labors; You’ll be richer in the end Than a prince, if you’re a friend."
- Edgar Albert Guest
"Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
- Socrates
"Beautiful and rich is an old friendship, Grateful to the touch as ancient ivory, Smooth as aged wine, or sheen of tapestry Where light has lingered, intimate and long. Full of tears and warm is an old friendship That asks no longer deeds of gallantry, Or any deed at all— save that the friend shall be Alive and breathing somewhere, like a song."
- Eunice Tietjens
"Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love."
- Arthur Christopher Benson
"Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more."
- Gene Brown
"Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
- Oscar Wilde
"Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and miraculous, and answer to our ideal. . . . Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody."
- Henry David Thoreau
"Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all. "
- John Burns
"Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older."
- John Dos Passos
"Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe that everyone in here is a friend and I don't want to leave anybody out."
- Malcolm X
"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
- Jane Austen
"Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does."
- Jane Austen
"But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life; and thanks to a benevolent arrangement of things, the greater part of life is sunshine."
- Thomas Jefferson
"By friendship you mean the greatest love, the greatest usefulness, the most open communication, the noblest sufferings, the severest truth, the heartiest counsel, and the greatest union of minds which brave men and women are capable."
- Jeremy Taylor
"Can miles truly separate us from friends? If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there? "
- Richard Bach
"Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks."
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
"Choose your friends carefully. Your enemies will choose you."
- Yassir Arafat
"Choose your friends wisely. They will provide the foundation of spiritual strength that will enable you to make difficult, extremely important decisions correctly when they come in your life. Above all, be a friend of the Savior."
- Malcolm S. Jeppsen
"Competition is easier to accept if you realize it is not an act of oppression or abrasion - I've worked with my best friends in direct competition."
- Diane Sawyer
"Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend."
- Grace Goodhue Coolidge
"Dad needs to show an incredible amount of respect and humor and friendship toward his ..."
- Tim Allen
"Deliver me from your cold, phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands."
- Abigail Smith Adams
"Don Ricardo Evertom, said the priest, has left footprints in this soil that neither rain nor wind can scrap away. Nationality and language do not separate friends. . . . It makes no difference what a man believes if he is a good person."
- Hamet Doerr
"Don’t make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up."
- Thomas J. Watson
"Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."
- Bach, Richard
"Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says 'Do this."
- Gandhi
"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
- Albert Camus
"Dreams are wishes casted upon stars, so catch a shining one ~ take your friend's hand~ and hold on forever"
- Traci Brown
"Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people. "
- Namie Amuro
"Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
- Lewis Mumford
"Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends."
- Cicero
"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Every murderer is probably somebody's old friend," observed Poirot philosophically. "You cannot mix up sentiment and reason."
- Agatha Christie
"Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend."
- John Singer Sargent